poem

英 ['pəʊɪm] 美['poəm]

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poem 诗，韵文

来自拉丁语poema,诗，诗歌创作，来自希腊语poiein,产生，制造，创作，来自PIE*kwei,建造，制造，词源同onomatopoeia.

poem: poem: [16] A poem is etymologically ‘something created’. The word comes via Old French poeme and Latin poēma from Greek póēma, a derivative of poeín ‘make, create’. The original sense ‘something created’ developed metaphorically via ‘literary work’ to ‘poem’. From the same Greek verb was derived poētés ‘maker’, hence ‘poet’, which produced Latin poēta and in due course English poet [13] (the Old English word for ‘poet’ had been scop, a relative of modern English scoff). Poetry [14] originated as a medieval Latin derivative of poēta. Poesy ‘poetry, poems’ [14], like poem originally a derivative Greek poeín, now has an archaic air, but it has a living descendant in posy [16], which started life as a contraction of poesy.
=> poesy, poet, poetry, posy
poem (n.): 1540s (replacing poesy in this sense), from Middle French poème (14c.), from Latin poema "composition in verse, poetry," from Greek poema "fiction, poetical work," literally "thing made or created," early variant of poiema, from poein, poiein, "to make or compose" (see poet). Spelling pome, representing an ignorant pronunciation, is attested from 1856.

1. At my brother's high school graduation the students recited a poem.: 在我弟弟的高中毕业典礼上，学生们朗诵了一首诗。

2. Whatever its obscurities, the poem was clear on at least one count.: 这首诗再怎么晦涩，至少有一点是清楚的。

3. To write and publish this poem was a daring, transgressive act.: 创作并发表这首诗是一个大胆越轨的举动。

5. They must each compose a poem in strict alliterative metre.: 他们必须每人作一首严格押头韵的诗。